On 6/18/20 11:22 PM, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 20:37, ATMunn via agora-discussion > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Here's a proto-proposal I came up with somewhat on the spot. Opinions >> welcome. >> >> >> Title: The Deck >> AI: 1.0 >> Author: ATMunn >> Co-author(s): >> >> Enact a power-1 rule entitled "The Deck" with the following text: >> The Deck is an entity. The Deck CAN own Cards, but no other types of >> assets. >> >> If the Deck owns at least one Card, any player CAN pay 10 coins to >> Draw a Card. When a player does so, the Dealor CAN by announcement, >> and SHALL in a timely fashion, transfer a Card from the Deck to the >> player who Drew a Card. The Dealor SHALL make the choice of which >> card to transfer randomly, with the probability of each type of Card >> being exactly proportional to the number of that Card that the Deck >> owns. Failure to use random chance in this transfer is the Class-2 >> Crime of Stacking the Deck. > > It seems ambiguous whether the probability of drawing a Justice card > is proportional to the number of Justice Cards, or the probability of > drawing *each* justice card is. (I'm pretty sure the former is what's > intended.) > > I think changing "make the choice of which card" to "make the choice > of which type of card" would fix the ambiguity. > > (Example: if the Deck owns a. Justice, b. Justice, c. Victory, then we > don't want to say the distribution is 2/5, 2/5, 1/5.) > >> The Dealor's includes the card ownership of the Deck. > > a word > > (Also, the Treasuror already would need to report this. Does it help > to have two officers reporting it?) > > - Falsifian >
What I wondered about regarding the Treasuror reporting is whether we should just split all of the cards into the Dealor's report. -- ---- Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, Herald, Referee, Tailor, Pirate Champion, Badge of the Great Agoran Revival, Badge of the Salted Earth
